Bringing a scale-out file system with a global namespace to the mid-range is an important point. Until recently, the mid-range landscape has been dominated by scale-up systems. In fact, scale-up systems are what got IT into the underutilized, stove-piped storage situation it is in today. Download this ESG whitepaper to learn how BlueArc's new storage platform, BlueArc Mercury(TM), scales in fixed increments that make it easy to install and deploy. It also scales up to an eight node cluster and 2 PB - making it a forceful consolidation solution.